A new global map, based on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data, pinpoints the richest rare earth mineral reserves on the planet. While these elements are not as “rare” as their name suggests ...

Powerful winds carrying metals in a planet-wide jet stream have been discovered on a hellish world where we already know it rains molten iron. For the first time, scientists have been able to map ...

Kepler can tell us how big a planet is, but it doesn't know what the ... that are not easily replicated in our current crop of global circulation models, per the authors. For their analysis ...

The maps here show the world as it is now ... we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58.

Windy planet: Artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth. (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) Astronomers have constructed the first “weather map” of the ...

Marine Traffic map lets anyone trace a vessel that has a position ‘transponder’ similar to those used by aircraft Transponder broadcasts the ships’ position, name, course and speed allowing ...